People with left-wing beliefs are “enemies of civilization,” said Miller in a speech with numerous McCarthyist echoes.

cross-posted from: https://news.abolish.capital/post/65164

In a set of fascistic speeches on Thursday, Secretary of State Marco Rubio, White House power broker Stephen Miller, and other top Trump administration officials labelled the political left as a “terrorist” threat and vowed to use all of the tools at their disposal to systematically destroy left-wing groups. Representatives from 67 countries gathered in the U.S. on Thursday for a meeting…

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  • chronicledmonocle@lemmy.world
    211·
    10 days ago

    It’s important to point out that he said “Violent Left-wing groups”. It’s bad enough without embellishing, because they’ll just label any resistance as “violence”, but let’s not embellish the words like Republicans, please. It makes us look no better than those assholes.

    • WideEyedStupid@lemmy.world
      11·
      10 days ago

      From the article:

      Miller went even further to say that not only left-wing groups, but also anyone who supports left-wing causes, must be subject to persecution. The issue with U.S. institutions, he said, is that they have grown too “soft” in cracking down on left-wing beliefs.

      “Nothing that we do works if the threat of violence and terror goes on unchecked. Our political systems don’t work. Our judicial systems don’t work. Our legal systems don’t work. Our jury trials don’t work,” said Miller. “At the same time, we have to understand there’s a real threat that those who are not themselves terrorists but who support left-wing violence will create the conditions that allow that violence to go on.”

      So no. Anyone who supports (what they deem) left-wing causes is targeted.

    • T00l_shed@lemmy.world
      9·
      10 days ago

      You may not want to accept it, but to them, people who go out and protest peacefully are “the violent left”, it was “violent antifa” that attacked the reflecting pool. Any left wingers who so much as says a peep about this fascism is “violent left” to these fascists.

      • kreskin@lemmy.world
        3·
        10 days ago

        Dem presidents too From LBJ to Clinton to Obama to Biden criminalized protests and whistleblowers too. There will be no help from the Dems.

      • chronicledmonocle@lemmy.world
        1·
        10 days ago

        I have no problems accepting it. I literally said they’ll just “label any resistance as violence”. I just think it’s important not to “adjust” words to make what is already insane shit sound more insane. It’s already fucking nuts.